Pipe-case.



NATHAN E. NEUSTADTL, OF MILVAUKEE, WVISCONSIN.

PIPE-CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

.Patented July lO, 1906.

Application filed January 5. 1906. Serial No. 294.750.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN E. NEUsTAD'rL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of l/Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pipe-Cases and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Flexible purseelike tobacco-pipe cases are well known to the trade, but it has been found that such a case affords no protection against fracture of the stem of a pipe therein; and the object of my invention is to furnish the trade with such cases having the stem portion of each reinforced with a light, strong, and durable material by which to obtain a desirable rigidity, said invention being hereinafter more particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

Figure l of the drawings represents a side elevation of a partly-flexible tobacco-pipe case in accordance with my invention, partly broken away and Fig. 2, a plan view of the case folded to economize s ace.

Referring by letter to t ie drawings, A indicates a tobacco-pipe case, of soft leather or other pliable material, similar to a pocketbook or purse, having a hinge-frame, the sections B of which frame are provided with spring-clamp knobs C, that snap past one another when the case is closed. As thus far described such a case is well known to the trade; but it is deficient in rigidity to protect the stem of a pipe therein from fracture, and the most valuable or costly pocket-pipes, as a rule, have stems or mouthpieces of amber or other brittle material.

In accordance with my invention a tubular reinforce D, of light, strong, and durable material-sheet metal, for instance-is provided as an integral filler in the stem portion of the case, and a lining E, of leather or other non-abrasive material, may be employed inside the reinforce-filler. If the lining E is employed, it may be desirable to fasten the same by stitching beyond the ends of the reinforce or otherwise; but said lining may be omitted and said reinforce fastened or not, as may be found necessary or desirable. The reinforce does not interfere with the folding back of the bowl portion of the empty pipecase to shorten the same and to thus facilitate its insertion in a pocket of a garment of the smoker, where it occupies the least possible space, this being one of the advantageous features of the ordinary flexible purse-like tobacco-pipe case.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A flexible purse-like tobacco-pipe case having the stem portion thereof provided with an integral tubular reinforce-'filler of stiff material..

2. A flexible purse-like tobacco-pipe case having the stem portion thereof provided with an integral tubular reinforce -iiller of stiff material, and a non-abrasive lining in the filler.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Visconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

N. E. NEUSTADTL.

Vitnesses:

N. E. OLIPnAN'r, GEORGE FELBER. 

